History Main / RightfulKingReturns

* King Michael of Romania was a figurehead ruler during most of his reign in the 1930s and 1940s. A fascist dictator came to power in Romania, who allied his country with the Nazis. In 1944 Michael, along with several generals loyal to him, organized a coup against the fascists and became allied with the West and the Soviets. Romania's [[CommieLand Soviet-occupied puppet communist government]] forced the king into exile in 1947 in order to more easily subjugate the country and kill monarchist sentiments (which would have directly conflicted with Communist ideals). He eventually returned in 1992 and on a more permanent basis in 1997 although Romania did not recognize him as their monarch. He died in 2017.

** This was seen as the Rightful Queen Returns by many when Mary I, the eldest surviving child of Henry VIII, claimed the throne after the death of her half-brother Edward VI. Edward had been persuaded on his deathbed to disinherit both of his elder half-sisters in favor of his cousin, Jane Grey, who was queen for all of nine days. Mary's supporters deposed Jane and restored Mary to the throne, although when she later became "Bloody Mary" there were those who regretted the plan. Mary herself, unable to bear children, very reluctantly named her half-sister Elizabeth as her successor; those who favored Elizabeth over Mary then considered this trope in effect once again.

* King Michael of Romania was a figurehead ruler during most of his reign in the 1930s and 1940s. A fascist dictator came to power in Romania, who allied his country with the Nazis. In 1944 Michael, along with several generals loyal to him, organized a coup against the fascists and became allied with the West and the Soviets. Romania's communist government forced the king into exile in 1947. He eventually returned in 1992 and on a more permanent basis in 1997 although Romania did not recognize him as their monarch. He died in 2017.

** George II then had to leave Greece as well (in December 1923) and the Greek National Assembly declared Greece a republic in March 1924. When that was dismantled, conservative leader Ionannis Metaxas saw to it that George was returned to the throne in a farcical referendum (98 per cent of votes in favour of the restoration of the monarchy) in November 1935, which enabled Metaxas to be established as Greece's dictator in 1936. Forced to go into exile by the German invasion of 1941, George II was reinstated by the British against the wishes of a large part of the Greek population, which led to the Greek civil war (1946-1949). After a referendum in September 1946, George II returned from exile. He died not long afterwards in April 1947.